"Someday MAGA hats will be shameful secrets, like Klan robes"

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  1. carlosofcali

    carlosofcali Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The author interviews professor/ writer Matt Sears on this topic. Couldn't find much info on this Canadian. Quote sounds interesting. I've never heard of people being fired from their jobs or threatened for speaking out against Trump esp on college campuses.

    Any thoughts?

    "Professors and other educators who speak out about the threat to democracy embodied by Donald Trump and his movement have been victims of a coordinated campaign of threats and violence -- including being fired from their jobs. Trumpism and the American right have birthed a type of new McCarthyism and anti-intellectualism in America. As a professor who studies literature and history, and also writes for a popular audience, how has that impacted you?"


    "Scholar Matt Sears: Someday MAGA hats will be shameful secrets, like Klan robes" https://www.salon.com/2019/02/17/sc...ats-will-be-shameful-secrets-like-klan-robes/

     
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    I think Sears made only one mistake. It's not "someday", it's now.
     
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    They will always be good for Private Halloween parties.
     
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    It might be a good time to buy a couple thousand of those things. I remember finding five big boxes of I Like Ike buttons from 1952 in my dads attic after he passed and I made bunchof money on them. I am going to hide the MAGA hats so my kids can cash in when I die 30 years from now...
     
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    Evidence or you're making it up.
     
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    Got my MAGA hat and wear it every day proudly. Why shouldn't I? The man had done wonders for the economy. Fixed the military and the V.A. Brought back manufacturing Obama and Pelosi said were gone and not coming back. Has the Black, Hispanics and Asians with their lowest unemployment. Got NATO to pony up millions more for the alliance. Got new trade deals with Mexico, Canada and S. Korea. Are in trade talks with China right now. I could go on and one, but I'm sure you get my drift.
     
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    So black folks can’t think on their own, got it. I guess darky would be completely lost without their white progressive masters to do their thinking for them.
     
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    Yeah. And you certainly should go on wearing your hat if you want to.

    The eonomy is progessing along the same track as it was before Trump, he has increased military spending with borrowed money, I don't know about the VA, other than he seems to have handed over to a couple of cornies that hang about Mar a Lago, NATO has pledged but not ponied up, The Trump Administration has done nothing specifically aimed at specifically inproving minority employment at all. We'll see

    Everyone worries about both the trade talks with China and the second meeting with Kim Jung Un.

    Trump's clown show on Friday morning not only entertained his base, by repeating a long set of previously discredited Trump lies that the Trumpster base will recognize and chant along to, while putting on a pathetic show of petty weakness and disregard for the imporance of his office. It was like watching a professional wrestler.

    Enjoy your MAGA hat. I'm sure one day it will sit on your closet shelf right next to your tri corner hat.
     
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    The title of post is misleading in a way. My doubt is the professor's assertion of "threats . . violence . . being fired" of faculty who oppose Trump. What university has fired a professor for being anti-Trump?
     
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    TFW even progressive posters start doubting the fake news.
     
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    I think it's kind of funny how everything has been discredited in an attempt to tar and feather Donald Trump. My bet is that the democratic party abandons people with this view soon. Well have to wait and see what happens in the next election.
     
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    Yeah, I call bullshit on that. Way more students have had to defend themselves for being Trump supporters than any professors have had to defend themselves for being Trump attackers. My suggestion to the professors: If you can't stand the heat, don't open your mouth. Your political opinions probably have nothing to do with your classroom topic, so keep them to yourself.

    My guess is that the left-wing extreme response to MAGA hats is only going to make them more popular, not less. Obama was the best thing to ever happen to the gun industry because of his threat to gun owners. The same thing could be happening with this attack on MAGA hats. As for the future, predictions are a losers' game, but I don't see any let-up in the American hostility to open borders, so the idea that enforcing the border is "racist" is a left-wing fantasy that isn't going to win any elections.
     
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    Lefties are ashamed of the American flag so the MAGA hat is in good company.
     
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    It would be major news if professors are threatened/ fired. And this professor teaches in New Brunswick Canada. I can't get past Matthew Sears' assertion. :roll:
     
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    The Trump Manufacturing Jobs Boom: 10 Times Obama's Over 21 Months

    The Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, six months into former President Obama’s first term. The economy continued to shed jobs until the following March. Manufacturing was particularly hard hit, with almost 2.3 million manufacturing jobs—some 1 in 6—lost between January 2008 and March 2010.

    As is the case during recoveries, jobs bounced back, with seasonally adjusted nonfarm employment expanding almost 12% from March 2010 until January 2017, when President Obama handed over the presidency to Donald Trump.

    But during the same period, manufacturing employment grew only 7.7% with manufacturing payrolls virtually flat in the last 21 months of the Obama administration.

    We were told it was the new normal.

    At a town hall in June 2016, President Obama famously said that some manufacturing jobs “are just not going to come back.” He went on to mock then-candidate Trump by saying he’d need a “magic wand” to make good on this manufacturing job promises.

    Months later, as the shock of a President-elect Donald Trump was still being absorbed, New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman tweeted on November 25, 2016, “Nothing policy can do will bring back those lost jobs. The service sector is the future of work; but nobody wants to hear it.”
     
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    Trump had to put lots of money in the military, Obama starved it till it was in such bad shape, over half to three quarters of all Marine and Navy fighters could no longer fly for lack of spare parts. That was just the air part. Things the Left will never tell you.

    Grounded: Nearly two-thirds of US Navy’s strike fighters ...
    https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2017/02/06/grounded-nearly-two...
    Overhauls — "availabilities" in Navy parlance — are being canceled or deferred, and when ships do come in they need longer to refit. Every carrier overall for at least three years has run long, and some submarines are out of service for prolonged periods, as much as four years or more. One submarine, the Boise, has lost its diving certification …

    70% of Marine Aircraft Can't Fly - …
    https://www.independentsentinel.com/70-of-
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    Out of 276 F/A-18 Hornet strike fighters in the Marine Corps inventory, only about 30% are ready to fly, according to statistics provided by the Corps. Similarly, only 42 of 147 heavy-lift CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters are airworthy.
     
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    Real change finally comes to the VA, thanks to Trump

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/.../real-change-finally-comes-to-the-va-thanks-t...


    Jun 6, 2018 - It has been a long slog to fix the Veterans Affairs healthcare system. ... President Trump has now signed the VA Mission Act into law – and ...
    Trump Signs $55 Billion Bill to Replace VA Choice Program | Military ...

    https://www.military.com › News › Headlines


    Jun 6, 2018 - President Donald Trump shows off the "VA Mission Act" during a ..... The Air Force Has Fixed Its Active-Duty Maintainer Shortage, SecAF Says.
     
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    Our saving grace so far is that their great orange hope is so crippled inside and incompetent that the damage isn't as bad as it could be.
    And as with McCarthy, people will see through trump's demagoguery and lies, although the worst of the lot will always wear their maga hats and swastikas proudly and try to keep the hate alive.
     
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    Booming economy. Low unemployment. Manufacturing jobs coming back that Obama and Pelosi said wasn't coming back. VA fixed. Military fixed. ISIS finished as a standing Army. Money for wall on the border. In peace talks with N. Korea, who Obama said would be America's biggest problem. Renegotiated trade with NAFTA after Obama promised to and changed his mind after election. New trade agreement with S. Korea. In trade talks with China right now. Got FDA to approve record number of generic drugs to help lower drug prices. Signed the Urban Council Act that will invest 100 billion in Black communities to fix them up and bring in business and jobs to their communities and help cut down crime. He has signed a prison reform act to give convicts a chance for a new lease on life. He passed a bill allowing the terminally ill to try experimental drugs, not yet approved for sale to give people a chance to live, or at least extend their life. Trump Signs Bill to Clean Millions of Tons of Garbage from World's Oceans.Trump signs another 'Buy American and Hire American' order. Trump Signs bill requiring all American parts in our weapons system. Etc.etc.etc.
     
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    Maybe some day lame ass twits like Matt sears will be ashamed of insulting people, and believing truly absolutely stupid horse crap like the above.
     
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    Yep... this belongs with the "Trump will never get the nomination", "Hillary has 98% chance of winning", "Trump colluded with Russia", "Trump will be impeached in the first year in the office" predictions, made by the insane TDS mob... which despite their perfect 100% record of failure can't stop making their absolutely wrong idiotic predictions :D
     
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